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The swindle of the White House plan was made transparently obvious, when the President issued a diktat: There will be no consideration of any "single-payer" reform, and no attempt to crack down on the insurance companies and HMOs, with their 30\% overhead costs.— LaRouche's Latest
While parts of the region - from Burma and North Korea to Laos, Vietnam and China - are still governed by diktat, the past couple of decades have created a region that to all outward appearances is largely democratic.— TIME.com: Top Stories
The recurring fantasies that 'traditional' values can be re-asserted by government diktat, or that building prisons will somehow reduce crime, regularly grip the Tories when they are presiding over a major recession or mired deep in long-term opposition, but are usually abandoned whenever actual policy programmes have to be implemented.— Red Pepper
Doctors today are increasingly being forced to work in a 'tickbox' culture - the treatment we give is determined less by clinical benefit than by diktat, largely as a result of Government imposed guidelines and growing supervision of our work.— Home | Mail Online
India Thursday joined a growing number of nations in imposing a total ban on smoking in public but there were doubts about how effectively the diktat could be imposed.— India eNews
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